Maxime Ripard

Maxime Ripard is an embedded Linux engineer at Free Electrons, which he joined in March 2011. In the past, Maxime has worked at France Telecom on embedded Linux systems, and at Archos on Android-based tablets.

Linux Kernel Development Experience

Maxime pioneered the Linux mainline support of the Allwinner SoCs and is now the co-maintainer of their support.

As part of this upstreaming effort, he wrote a significant amount of drivers that are now in the official Linux kernel, among which the clock, pin control, DMA, I2C or SPI. He more recently has been working on the display engine support in DRM, adding support for the HDMI, RGB and TV interfaces, and working on integrating the ARM Mali GPU.

Training Experience

Maxime has been giving training at Free Electrons since 2012, first writing and training the Android system course, and since delivered dozens of courses on Linux kernel development, Android and Linux system.